The Foreign Investors Who Bought the Recklessly Ballooning US Debt: July 2025 Update by Wolf Richter • Jul 18, 2025 • 91 Comments US Treasury debt surged by $441 billion since the debt ceiling, to $36.7 trillion. Foreign demand for this stuff is an increasingly important issue.
The Most Splendid Housing Bubbles in Canada, June 2025: Single-Family & Condo Prices Plunge to Multi-Year Lows in Toronto, Hit Record High in Montreal by Wolf Richter • Jul 15, 2025 • 38 Comments And everything in between: Vancouver, Victoria, Calgary, Ottawa, Halifax, Edmonton, Quebec City, Winnipeg.
The Somewhat Bedraggled US Dollar against the Euro, Yen, Canadian Dollar, Dollar Indices, and Soft Currencies like the Indian Rupee by Wolf Richter • Jun 24, 2025 • 38 Comments No longer the cleanest dirty shirt.
Who Held or Bought the Huge US Government Debt even as the Fed Shed Treasury Securities in Q1? An Iffy Situation by Wolf Richter • Jun 20, 2025 • 41 Comments Here’s who dumped and who bought over the years through Q1.
S&P’s US Manufacturing PMI Shows “Solid” Growth Powered by Jump in Domestic New Orders. Canada & Mexico PMIs Tank by Wolf Richter • Jun 2, 2025 • 18 Comments But the ISM Manufacturing PMI for the US shows contraction on declining new orders. The contradicting PMIs add to the confusing “soft data.”
The Most Splendid Housing Bubbles in Canada, April 2025: Single-Family & Condo Prices Drop to Multi-Year Lows, Driven by Toronto by Wolf Richter • May 15, 2025 • 24 Comments But some metros hit all-time highs. By Metro: Toronto, Vancouver, Victoria, Calgary, Ottawa, Montreal, Halifax, Edmonton, Quebec City, Winnipeg.
Foreign Investors Massively Bought US Treasury Securities in February: China, Japan, Canada, Euro Area, UK, Financial Centers, Taiwan, India, even Brazil by Wolf Richter • Apr 16, 2025 • 81 Comments Biggest increase since June 2021. And they mostly bought long-term Treasury debt. No major holder dumped.
The Most Splendid Housing Bubbles in Canada, March 2025: Sales Plunge, Supply Surges, Overall Prices Drop to Multi-Year Lows, Driven by Toronto by Wolf Richter • Apr 15, 2025 • 62 Comments But in some metros, prices continued to spike. By Metro: Toronto, Vancouver, Victoria, Calgary, Ottawa, Montreal, Halifax, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Quebec City.
Status of US Dollar as Global Reserve Currency: Central Banks Diversify into Other Currencies and Gold by Wolf Richter • Mar 31, 2025 • 114 Comments The surge of the “nontraditional reserve currencies.”
Who Holds the Ballooning US Government Debt, even as the Fed and Foreign Holders Unloaded Treasury Securities in Q4? by Wolf Richter • Mar 18, 2025 • 59 Comments An increasingly important question in iffy times. Here are the holders as of Q4, who dumped, who bought.
